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  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

Curriculum Vitae | Website | Email Marcela Carvalho Abstract: Who gets the benefit of the doubt? CEO gender and news about firm performance I show that financial markets react asymmetrically to bad news about firm performance depending on whether it’s delivered by male... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

firm, forcing the firm to lower its prices. If the open source developers' intrinsic motivation is high enough, they will develop software regardless of eventual market dynamics. If the open source product is available first, all View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Latin America - Global

privately held companies. Searchers' primary goal is to find promising businesses—typically in the lower middle market—and take over its operational leadership. April 2024 Article Laura Catena Ascends to the Summit of the Burgeoning Wine Industry In Latin America,... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

"last-place averse." Participants choose gambles with the potential to move them out of last place that they reject when randomly placed in other parts of the distribution. In modified-dictator games, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

long-term business histories of all other large countries, has been one of intense and incessant competition. Americans have persistently shown themselves willing to follow market forces with relatively little hesitation. In the early... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

energy and potential of their people to deliver superior economic and social value. Book: http://hbr.org/product/higher-ambition-how-great-leaders-create-economic-/an/12957-HBK-ENG The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

their wages increased rates of female labor force participation and decreased negative perceptions around women working outside the home. “What... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

through the generosity of Cathleen Benko (MBA 1989) in honor of her late husband, George Duebner (MBA 1988), on the occasion of her 30th Reunion. It supports students who are veterans of the US Armed Forces and, whenever possible, who did... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

unskilled workers encourages employers to design business models around their availability. Participants will leave the session with a detailed understanding of the current dynamics of the US labor market... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

Government Efficiency, and Profitability Around the World By: Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - The year in Review

Scholarships Press Release New Faculty Welcomed Thirteen faculty members, including new tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners, participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School, that took place in person on... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

self-insight. Consequently, spontaneous thoughts potently influence judgment. A series of experiments provides evidence supporting two hypotheses. First, we hypothesize that the more a thought is perceived to be spontaneous, the more it is perceived to provide... View Details
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

about how market participants form expectations? The authors study the rationality of individual and consensus forecasts of macroeconomic and financial variables. They use a diagnostic expectations version of a dispersed information... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

infibulation, a particularly invasive form of female genital cutting. How restrictions on women are playing out Becker believes that her research has implications for women participating in the workforce.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

(forthcoming) Abstract Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending syndicates. As lenders, institutional investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Skydeck - Alumni

Alumni share life-altering lessons from the labor force The Making of a Streaming Sensation Author and producer Jeff Norton (MBA 2003) on how his show Geek Girl became a Netflix hit—and what it tells us... View Details